Example sentences of "four [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 2 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
| 3 | Unlike most birdwatchers , I am lucky enough to live less than four hours ' drive from their regular winter home — a wildfowl marsh constructed by one of the Maharajahs of Bharatpur . |
| 4 | At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants . |
| 5 | In four hours ' time there will come a roar like an emergency pitstop at Silverstone , and the next feed will be due . |
| 6 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 7 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 8 | Until recently , volunteers in the CAB were required to commit themselves to four hours ' voluntary service per week . |
| 9 | This uses a flip-over cassette which gives four hours ' playing in each direction . |
| 10 | Looking back , every solo on ‘ Rust In Peace ’ would 've needed another three or four hours ' more work to have satisfied Max , because they 're all in and out of time . |
| 11 | Four hours ' ride finds you at ruins of the Mayan civilisation where the cousins of the Aztecs built jungle pyramids to worship their gods . |
| 12 | ‘ The hardest part of the ‘ Challenge ’ was standing at the wheel in the cockpit after only four hours ' sleep , feeling like you were being bombarded by cannons firing icy water . |
| 13 | Area Health Authority to apply on four hours ' notice to all parties ( such notice to be sufficiently given by telephone ) to vary or discharge this injunction . |
| 14 | Blanche looked a little ragged at the edges , her sergeant noted indulgently , but was otherwise unmarked by just four hours ' sleep the night before . |
| 15 | From there , he took a direct flight to Larnaca , Cyprus , and after four hours ' sleep , caught the midnight ferry to Jounieh . |
| 16 | Which you had , the government , the government or building firms had to guarantee you forty four hours ' payment f of wages , forty four hours guaranteed and you had to get that whether you were working or not . |
| 17 | You ca n't think clearly on four hours ' sleep . |
| 18 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |
| 19 | In paper mills the base for wage calculation was a measure of output judged to occupy eight hours , but paper makers generally worked another four hours ' overtime . |
| 20 | The leader needs some four minutes ' advance to feel safe . |
| 21 | At Glengall Bridge — four minutes ' walk south of Thames Quay — WIU has leased four floors in Bellerive House , part of a 170,000 sq ft development by BICC and London & Edinburgh Trust , for its business courses . |
| 22 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 23 | So I 'll ask you a question in about er , three or four minutes ' time , which could result in you 're going out next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 24 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 25 | The Admiral who had been appointed as the boss of Playboy UK got a golden handshake of nearly £12 million for four months ' tenure as the firm was taken over . |
| 26 | Original entrance arches , terraces , ponds , King Charles ' Walk , a reminder of Charles I 's four months ' imprisonment here after his defeat in the Civil War . |
| 27 | Theo took a shorter journey - to Wormwood Scrubs , where he did four months ' hard labour . |
| 28 | 1982 — FOUR months ' pregnant with William , the future king of England , the Princess crashes down a Sandringham staircase in an alleged suicide attempt . |
| 29 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 30 | This report was the result of four months ' research , including material relating to Britain , Belgium , South Africa , Canada and the US , and noted that the IDA 's and the IIRS 's ‘ complacent attitude ’ towards asbestos was not shared by many eminent bodies throughout the world and that there was movement towards the phasing out of asbestos . |